James A. Johnson
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James A. Johnson was the husband of pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, supporting her career during the civil rights era and the space race.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James A. Johnson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10038247 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James A. Johnson Context triple: [Katherine Johnson, spouse, James A. Johnson]
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A.
John F. Johnson
John F. Johnson is an individual known primarily in this context as the husband of Diane Johnson.
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B.
Joseph MacMillan Johnson
Joseph MacMillan Johnson was a Hollywood art director and production designer best known for his work on classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s "Rear Window."
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C.
Allan Blakeney Johnson
Allan Blakeney Johnson was a prominent Canadian politician and public servant, best known for serving as premier of Saskatchewan and for his influential contributions to public policy and governance.
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D.
Leroy S. Johnson
Leroy S. Johnson was a prominent Mormon fundamentalist leader who guided the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints through much of the mid-20th century.
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E.
George H. Eldridge
George H. Eldridge was the disability benefits claimant whose challenge to due process protections in benefit termination proceedings led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Mathews v. Eldridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James A. Johnson Target entity description: James A. Johnson was the husband of pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, supporting her career during the civil rights era and the space race.
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A.
John F. Johnson
John F. Johnson is an individual known primarily in this context as the husband of Diane Johnson.
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B.
Joseph MacMillan Johnson
Joseph MacMillan Johnson was a Hollywood art director and production designer best known for his work on classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s "Rear Window."
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C.
Allan Blakeney Johnson
Allan Blakeney Johnson was a prominent Canadian politician and public servant, best known for serving as premier of Saskatchewan and for his influential contributions to public policy and governance.
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D.
Leroy S. Johnson
Leroy S. Johnson was a prominent Mormon fundamentalist leader who guided the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints through much of the mid-20th century.
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E.
George H. Eldridge
George H. Eldridge was the disability benefits claimant whose challenge to due process protections in benefit termination proceedings led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Mathews v. Eldridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| activeDuring |
civil rights era
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space race ⓘ |
| associatedWith | NASA ⓘ |
| notableFor | supporting the career of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson ⓘ |
| spouse | Katherine Johnson ⓘ |
| supportedCareerOf | Katherine Johnson ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: James A. Johnson Description of subject: James A. Johnson was the husband of pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, supporting her career during the civil rights era and the space race.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.